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Richard Muller -- "Physics for Future Presidents" 
forum@kqed.org (KQED Public Ra via KQED's Forum on Tue, 29 Jul. 2008
Richard Muller -- "Physics for Future Presidents" -- Physics can help inform our understanding of such hot-button topics as climate change, energy consumption, space exploration, weapons and war. Professor Richard Muller's new book explains the basics of physics that all voters and politicians should know in order to make educated decisions on these and other issues. Muller is a professor in the p
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WalkScore.com - Another Web Hosting Success Story
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Everyday, we hear new stories about a cool new startup and its success story.
Today, It was WalkScore.com. The website of
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Can Scanning as a Service Clean Your Desk Off?
AWS Editor via Amazon Web Services Blog on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Does your desk look like this photo? No comment on where the photo was taken, of course... There's hope!
Pixily just launched, with
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Murali lets the side down
JP via confused of calcutta on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
[Yes, it's a cricket post. Apologies to those not yet afflicted.]
Twenty20. The IPL. Darrell Hair. Sreesanth,
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New Blog Readership Numbers from PEW Internet Study
Amit Agarwal via Digital Inspiration on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Pew Research Center for Internet has released some new numbers on blogging and blog readership using data of US based adults. To give you an example, only 11% on Internet users in US read blogs on a typical day while 42% claim to have read blogs at least once.
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"Dead Pledge"
Barry Ritholtz via The Big Picture on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
What is a dead pledge?
Well, that is the literal translation of the word mortgage:1390, from O.Fr. morgage (13c.), mort gaige, lit. "dead pledge"
(replaced in modern Fr. by hypothèque), from mort "dead" + gage
"pledge;" so called because the deal dies either when the debt is paid
or when payment fails. O.Fr. mort is from V.L. *mort
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Meetup - The Original Web Meets World Company
brad via Union Square Ventures: A New Y on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Something is changing on the web. We have lost some of the giddy enthusiasm that has surrounded the web since 2004. It was then that Tim O’Reilly defined Web 2.0 as a platform that leveraged collective intelligence. There is still a ton of interest this idea, but many of the recent conversations we have had about the web are colored by concern.
Though it is not often stated, I think
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The Advertising-Based Web 2.0 World is Losing Its Anti-Gravity Ray Too
smoothspan via SmoothSpan Blog on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
I wrote recently that Google is losing its Anti-Gravity Ray. By this I don’t mean that Google is by any means over, merely that it will increasingly have to obey the ordinary laws of physics and deal with delivering real financial results that include a close focus on profitability and not j
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Our Newest Portfolio Company: Meetup
Fred via A VC on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
My partner Brad starts his post on our newest investment, Meetup, with a rumination on what's causing the introspection that we in web investing land are going through. And he ends his thoughts on that topic with the following:Two things will need to happen i
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Facebook Acquires Twitter and 4 More Deals That Should Happen
Dharmesh Shah via OnStartups on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Today's big news
from TechCrunch is is that Google is in the final stages of acquiring digg
for about $200 million. Makes sense to me. Particularly given some of Google's
recent experiments having social voting in their search results pages.
I'd been
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My online footprint lately
Stoyan via phpied.com on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
This is a sort of a catch-up post for listing what I've been up to lately.
YUI Blog just published my first article, I'm so proud. It's about loading JavaScript in non-blocking fashion, because JavaScripts, they, you know, like, block downloads. Luckily, there's an easy fix - DOM includes, which I've previously
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Raising The Stakes
Fred via A VC on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
It always amuses me that our portfolio company Zynga got its start with Poker. Because as I always tell Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga, he's playing this hand pretty well.
And Mark seems to like the hand he's got right now because Zynga has just raised the stakes in the social games category with
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Moral Hazard....
guest2008 via Paul Kedrosky's Infectious on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
Once again, Tom Vanderwell here with some thoughts about moral hazard....Barry Ritholz at The Big Picture
had these two comics that brought to the forefront again the issue of
moral hazard. Check out the comics and then we'll talk "on the other
side."
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Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know
Alex Iskold via ReadWriteWeb on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
The future of software development
is about good craftsmen. With infrastructure like Amazon Web Services and
an abundance of basic libraries, it no longer takes a village
to build a good piece of software. These days, a couple of engin
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Perl on App Engine?
Artur Bergman via O'Reilly Radar - Insight, on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
I am a Perl hacker. I have written parts of the core, created CPAN modules and written tons of perl code. In fact I am addicted to it ; or rather, CPAN. I have been wanting to play around with Google App Engine, but I haven't had time to get up to speed in Python. Today at OSCON I me
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A helluva thing
Mark via dive into mark on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
It’s a helluva thing, a trial by jury. It was a radical notion 200 years ago, and it’s still a radical notion today.
I served on a jury once. Getting called for jury duty sucks, because most of the time you just sit in the jury lounge all day and then go home. But actually serving on a jury is a totally different thing. I think everyone should experience it at least once. In on
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Those Damn Short Sellers Are Just Killing It!
Barry Ritholtz via The Big Picture on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
There were a sew of articles in the papers today about just how much money those damned shorts are making!
First up, the WSJ, who looked at who was killing it:"Some hedge-fund stars of 2007 are having an encore year. In the process, they are defying ske
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Mashups lost their appeal? How about using them for good?
(author unknown) via Yahoo! Developer Network blog on Wed, 23 Jul. 2008
I just arrived in the Silicon Valley to work here for a month and synced up with the local colleagues to compare our notes on how we organize developer days, unconferences and our general outreach to universities and partner companies. One of the things I had already expected but didn't get confirmed is that there is a mashup fatigue.
I've felt that, too, and wondered what to do about
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